Bio-Bibliographical Notes/Notes biobibliographiques

Steven Baldner is professor
of philosophy at St. Francis Xavier University, where he is also Coordinator
of the Program in Catholic Studies. His primary academic interest is
in mediaeval natural philosophy, especially in the thought of Thomas
Aquinas and Albertus Magnus. He has published on Aquinas, Albert, and
Bonaventure. With William Carroll he has published a study and translation
of Thomas' early work on creation: Aquinas on Creation (Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies, 1997).

Christopher Byrne is
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-ordinator of the Classical
Studies Programme at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Canada. His research interests include ancient Greek views of
nature, in particular, Aristotle's natural science, and ancient Greek
moral theories. Two recent publications are "Matter and Aristotle's
Material Cause," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31 (2001), 85-111,
and "Aristotle on Physical Necessity and the Limits of Teleological
Explanation," Apeiron 35 (2002), 19-46.

Sherri Irvin teaches philosophy
at the University of Ottawa and recently received her Ph.D. from Princeton
University. Her primary research areas are aesthetics and applied ethics.
She is an occasional art critic and independent curator.

John MacKinnon is Associate
Professor of Philosophy at Saint Mary's University in Halifax. His main
areas of research are aesthetics and philosophy of literature.

Ira Newman is Professor
of Philosophy at Mansfield University, in Mansfield. Pennsylvania. His
main research interests are in philosophy of literature and in environmental
aesthetics. At present he is working on a book on the logic of fictional
literature, with the intended title, Webs of Fiction.

Robert Scott Stewart
is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and
Religious Studies at the University College of Cape Breton located in
Sydney, Nova Scotia. His research interests are rather eclectic; most
recently he has been publishing in the areas of philosophy in literature
and the philosophy of psychology.

Michael Watkins is Professor
of Philosophy at Auburn University in Alabama. In addition he is an
adjunct professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax. His main interests
are metaphysics and perception.

Sheldon Wein is Professor
of Philosophy and International Development Studies at Saint Mary's
University in Halifax. His main areas of research are jurisprudence,
rational decision theory, and issues in international justice.

James O. Young is Professor
and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Victoria. He is the author
of Art and Knowledge (2001), Global Anti-realism (1995)
and many essays on aesthetics, and philosophy of language.